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THT - W2 Flashcards

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Plato’s Republic (To be good/just)

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  • Pure Reason (aligned) w/out emotions
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  • Pure Reason (aligned) w/out emotions
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Plato’s Republic (To be good/just)

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Plato’s Republic (the role of poets)

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to teach, to enable understanding

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to teach, to enable understanding

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Plato’s Republic (the role of poets)

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  • Plato’s Republic (Poetry Critque)
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  • Inspiration (Composition , not reason)
  • Ignorant of what Teaches (teaches wrong things)
  • It’s Imitation
  • Wrong Emotions (encour. audience’s)
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  • Inspiration (Composition , not reason)
  • Ignorant of what Teaches (teaches wrong things)
  • It’s Imitation
  • Wrong Emotions (encour. audience’s)
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  • Plato’s Republic (Poetry Critque)
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Greek Tragedy (Aristotle)

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  • Imitation of Noble Action
  • Serious and Complete
  • Great size
  • Embelished Language + Artistics
  • Action Form (not narrative)
  • Proper purgation of emotions (such. pity, fear)
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  • Imitation of Noble Action
  • Serious and Complete
  • Great size
  • Embelished Language + Artistics
  • Action Form (not narrative)
  • Proper purgation of emotions (such. pity, fear)
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Greek Tragedy (Aristotle)

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Greek Tragedy Quality (Aristotle’s 6 parts/principles)

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  • Plot
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Diction
  • Spectacle (the embelism)
  • Song (chief embelishment)
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  • Plot
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Diction
  • Spectacle (the embelism)
  • Song (chief embelishment)
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Greek Tragedy Quality (Aristotle’s 6 parts/principles)

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Spectacle (of six Aristotle’s principles)

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The Embelish

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The Embelish

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Spectacle (of six Aristotle’s principles)

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Song (of six Aristotle’s principles)

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Chief embelishment

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Chief embelishment

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Song (of six Aristotle’s principles)

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Greek Comedy (Aristotle)

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  • Ridiculous - (Deformity; error, ugliness - Painless; no harmful effects)
  • Imitation of baser man
  • Light treatment of the otherwise base and ugly
  • Farest form of reality
  • Accomplishes through action
  • Targets = Indignation
  • Intellectual Clarification
  • Indignation (2 things) :
  • good fortune for no reason
  • not make pity or sorrow
  • Brings happiness final goal in any activity
  • Fortunate rise of sympathetic character
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  • Ridiculous - (Deformity; error, ugliness - Painless; no harmful effects)
  • Imitation of baser man
  • Light treatment of the otherwise base and ugly
  • Farest form of reality
  • Accomplishes through action
  • Targets = Indignation
  • Intellectual Clarification
  • Indignation (2 things) :
  • good fortune for no reason
  • not make pity or sorrow
  • Brings happiness final goal in any activity
  • Fortunate rise of sympathetic character
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Greek Comedy (Aristotle)

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Target of Greek Comedy (Aristotle)

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Idignation (2 things)
Must manifest a good fortune for no reason
Must not make feel pityor sorrow

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Indignation (Aristotle)

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  • Must manifest a good fortune for no reason
  • Must not make feel pityor sorrow
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Greek Theatre Conventions (Setting/Stage)

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  • Amphitheatres
  • Open no decor, no scenery
  • Alter or Table (Thymele - Stone)
  • Orchestra (Dancing Place)
  • Proskenion (Stage/Play Area)
  • Skene (Backstage)
  • Devices
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The epiphany or moment of recognition

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Anagnorisis

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Anagnorisis

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The epiphany or moment of recognition

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agon

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contest or debate between two characters (tragedies)

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contest or debate between two characters (tragedies)

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agon

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catharsis

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  • Emotions are cleansed and the audience is educated on civic morals by feeling fear and pity for the play???s characters.
  • Aristotle tragedy???s main purpose
  • Moment Of Relief
  • (Indignation = Good thing/Bad People + Ridiculous)
    (e. g. Lysistrata: Over exaggerated Boobs)
  • Purgation: Open us to change, Attain Clarity
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  • Emotions are cleansed and the audience is educated on civic morals by feeling fear and pity for the play???s characters.
  • Aristotle tragedy???s main purpose
  • Moment Of Relief
  • (Indignation = Good thing/Bad People + Ridiculous)
    (e. g. Lysistrata: Over exaggerated Boobs)
  • Purgation: Open us to change, Attain Clarity
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catharsis

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Deus Ex Machine

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'’god from a machine’’

  • resolve play with disciplinary action or wisdom.
  • cranes for gods appear in mid-air (Mechane)
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'’god from a machine’’

  • resolve play with disciplinary action or wisdom.
  • cranes for gods appear in mid-air (Mechane)
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Deus Ex Machine

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The error of judgment or mistaken action that characterizes all __________

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tragic protagonists.

(this error= Hamartia)

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Hamartia

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Error of judgment or mistaken action that characterizes all tragic protagonists.

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Error of judgment or mistaken action that characterizes all tragic protagonists.

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Hamartia

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Dramatic irony

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  • Audience know things that some Characters don’t
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  • Audience know things that some Characters don’t
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Dramatic irony

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Catharis (e.g)

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Lysistrata: Over exaggerated Boobs

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Hamartia (e.g.)

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Lysistrata: - Athenian decline (naval wars)

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Hubris

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Extreme in everything ??? Extreme in arrogance.

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Extreme in everything ??? Extreme in arrogance.

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Hubris

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Metatheatricality

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  • Breaking the fourth Wall, Breaking the illusion.
    (e. g. Talking to the public)
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  • Breaking the fourth Wall, Breaking the illusion.
    (e. g. Talking to the public)
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Metatheatricality

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Copy (Greek)

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Mimesis

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Mimesis

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Copy (Greek)

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Plot Reversals
Turning of events

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Peripeteia

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Peripeteia

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Plot Reversals
Turning of events

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teichoskopeia

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watching from a wall
Messenger on Schenes Roof
To Describe battles and other scenes

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watching from a wall
Messenger on Schenes Roof
To Describe battles and other scenes

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teichoskopeia

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ekkyklema

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Rolling platform to roll murdered character on stage.

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Rolling platform to roll murdered character on stage.

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ekkyklema

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Only men were allowed to act in plays, though _________

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Could attend:

  • Women
  • Servants
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choregos

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  • producer
  • wealthy citizen
  • funds the chorus
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  • producer
  • wealthy citizen
  • funds the chorus
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choregos

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Funds the Playwright and Leading Actors. (Greek)

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the City Government provides

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the City Government provides

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Funds the Playwright and Leading Actors. (Greek)

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Due to large theater sizes, simple costumes, and masks covering expressions _______

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Actors relied a lot on gesture to demonstrate action. (due to ______)

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Actors relied a lot on gesture to demonstrate action. (due to ______)

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Due to large theater sizes, simple costumes, and masks covering expressions _______

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Flutes (Greek THT)

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Most important instruments providing a play???s music

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Most important instruments providing a play???s music

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Flutes (Greek THT)

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Aristotle???s Poetics deals

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  • Religious Origins of Tragedy
  • Role of the Protagonist
  • Function of Chorus.
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  • Religious Origins of Tragedy
  • Role of the Protagonist
  • Function of Chorus.
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Aristotle???s Poetics deals

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Aristotle (Crucial in Tragedy)

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Unified action (unity of action, place, and time)
Peripeteia (Reversals)
Anagnorisis (Epiphany or moment of recognition)

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Greek Actors

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  • Only 3 Actors Several Parts (Early)
  • Chorus 12-15
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Thymele

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  • Alter or Table (made of Stone)
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  • Orchestra
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(Dancing Place)

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  • Proskenion
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Stage/Play Area

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Skene

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Backstage

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  • Alter or Table (made of Stone)
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Thymele

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(Dancing Place)

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  • Orchestra
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Stage/Play Area

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  • Proskenion
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Backstage

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Skene

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Lysistrata Episodes

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The different scenes occurring throughout the play

  • No specific separation Time- or- Theme.
    (e. g)
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Lysistrata - Context of Writing

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  • Written in 411 BCE - (Peloponnesian War)
  • Loss of Athenian fleet/ Money (413 at Sicily)
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Lysistrata - Politics Context

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  • Athenian 1st Democracy (Man = 1/4 of population own land - no debt)
  • Status of Women (Ath: Propriety / Spar: Free)
  • Proboulos (Commissionner, Magistrate - Aged/Respected)
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  • Athenian 1st Democracy
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Man = 1/4 of population own land - no debt

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  • Status of Women (Athens / Sparta)
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Status of women (ATHENIAN)
- propriety of husband
- allowed to go trade
- Provide baby
Status of women (SPARTAN)
- Free
- Could own land
- Same education as boys

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Proboulos

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Commissionner, Magistrate

  • Aged/Respected
  • To cope difficulties Athens Pelopeisan War
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Commissionner, Magistrate

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  • Proboulos
  • Aged and Respected
  • To cope difficulties Athens Pelopeisan War
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Essential Element for Drama to Emerge

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Literacy and writing down stories.

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Greek Tragedy Originated from _______

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  • Goats Song
  • Choral performers of dithyrambs
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3rd Actor (why? + Origin)

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  • Expanded playwright’s options for complexity of plot and dialogue.
  • Sophocles
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Satyr Play (goal)

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  • Audience comic relief after daylong of tragedy
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The role of dialogue and the collective chorus directly parallels

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Citizens debating and casting their votes

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Choruses - Comedy vs Tragedy

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Comedy- Animals and inanimate objects

Tragedy- Represents the public’s perspective

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